Abdul Wahid Hadi

Abdul Wahid Hadi (died 1986) was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who was assassinated in his home in Dusseldorf, West Germany by the Arm of the Arab Revolution, which was acting on the orders of Syria.

Biography
Abdul Wahid Hadi was born in Syria to a Sunni Muslim family, and he became a fundamentalist cleric. Hadi joined the Muslim Brotherhood, and he became an enemy of Hafez al-Assad's Syrian Arab Republic as a result. Hadi and the leadership of the brotherhood lived in West Germany, and in 1985 Carlos the Jackal was contacted by the Syrian Air Force intelligence, which asked him to assassinate the leadership of the Muslim Brothers due to their opposition to the secular Syrian regime. One day in 1986, two gunmen knocked on his door at his Dusseldorf apartment. Hadi had just finished prayers, and his wife had just started boiling some water on the kettle. The wife answered the door, and she was shot in the head by a silenced pistol. The gunmen went after Hadi, who attempted to hide behind a closed door. However, the gunmen shot through the door with their guns, killing him.